It appears to be another chalk-heavy season in college football, but that's where the breadth and depth of the sport so greatly pay off. You can always find things that surprise or amaze you if you look for them. Let's walk through some of them.
The list of amazing things from September begins with the dominance itself.
The tippy-top tier
The 2018 season is remembered primarily for chalk. Alabama and Clemson appeared head and shoulders ahead of everyone else for most of the season, and the other two College Football Playoff participants (Oklahoma and Notre Dame) were barely tested over the second half of the season.